Praise you in the storm!

Some of you have read my post from yesterday...and some of you may not have. Well, before you can read this one you need to read that last one...I'll wait...(Jeopardy Music)...anyway, as you all know I had a REALLY bad day yesterday. But as I was sitting in class, thinking about what I was going to say at Agape that night (because my heart was in a bad place from all this stuff that was happening) I started really searching deep about the connection of what just happened to what I had been doing all weekend. I started thinking about where I was about to take my life. I am about to REALLY start my ministry. I am about to go to a school where my knowledge and fellowship with Christ can really flourish and go beyond anything I have yet to experience in my life. I am following what God's path is for my life and that path takes to a place where He will work through me and use me to bring people closer to Him. And there is someone that is REALLY pissed off about that.

The Bible says that the enemy comes to kill steal and destroy. And NOTHING fires him up more to do these things than when he sees God's children doing God's work. He is content with lukewarm Christians who sit on their butts and do nothing, but when they finally get up and start stepping on the enemy's toes, he gets pissed. I believe that by making this decision this weekend, I stepped on the enemy's toes and now he wants to do anything within his power to bring me down. He tried yesterday. He threw it all at me. And all that on top of destroying the homes of some people I love back in Myrtle Beach. He tried to tear me down, and he failed. Satan is a punk. Yes he has power, yes he can deceive us, and it would be foolish to underestimate his power, because that is exactly when you will fall into his temptation, but the power of God in us is SO much more powerful. This is an attempt on my faith by an enemy that is shaking in his boots. He knows what God can use me for and he knows that I am following that path and that has sent him into the offensive. He will attack me where it hurts. But regardless of the storms that I am put through, I will still praise God.

Now, you may be asking, if you have God...then why didn't He stop those things. Well...I could say God works in mysterious ways...but that's not true. He works in very blatant and obvious ways, we just don't always get it right away. The reason for this was growth. I would not have had this amazing story or this amazing growth in my understanding of the tactics of the enemy had I not been allowed to go through this. I would not have had such an important and amazing message to share with the Agape group last night and I would not be typing this post right now that could possibly be helping other people around the world that are going through storms right now. God works. And He ALWAYS has a reason. Whether we understand it is all based on our understanding of His word and His heart.